 Well, one of the beautiful things that happens on this path where you honor all of life as sacred is that you begin to see that many living beings can bring very profound teachings and even methodologies for attaining spiritual growth and cultivation. In the Shamanic pathway we honor all living beings as having immense capacity and wisdom. When you merge and integrate with the energy of these beings they bring gifts of deep insight and wisdom and then of course that wisdom begins to flow through you if you really receive the initiatory process that that totem has brought to you.